Música para el corpus
Joan Pau Pujol: Music for Corpus Christi | LAU007
Joan Pau Pujol (1570–1626) was one of the most important figures in 17th-century Catalan music. Born in Mataró, he entered the service of Barcelona Cathedral at a very young age, completing his musical training there under J. Andreu Vilanova. Pujol was chapel master at Tarragona Cathedral (1593–1595), El Pilar in Zaragoza (1595–1612), and finally at Barcelona Cathedral (1612–1626). He left behind a prolific musical legacy. In the liturgical sphere, his compositions include masses, motets, magnificats, antiphons, lamentations, passions, hymns, litanies and a large number of psalms. His Corpus Christi and Christmas carols are particularly noteworthy in the paraliturgical sphere. He composed almost a hundred, of which only around twenty have survived. His strictly secular repertoire includes romances, tones to the human and the divine, and various lyrics for singing, some of which are found in poetic-musical songbooks from that period. La Grande Chapelle and Schola Antiqua have focused on reconstructing the Corpus Christi procession and festivities in their entirety. This begins at the hour of Terce and is often integrated into the Mass itself. The Mass usually ends with a procession during which different hymns with a fully Eucharistic theme are sung, such as 'Pange lingua' and 'Sacris Solemniis'. These hymns alternate with responsories and carols, which serve as commentary, and are performed at the stops made during the procession inside the sacred precincts. This recording is original in two respects. Firstly, it mostly includes unpublished music. Secondly, it reconstructs a Compline service as it might have been performed in Barcelona Cathedral. This includes the singing of the four psalms, a short responsory (In manus tuas), the antiphon and the canticle of Simeon Nunc dimittis. It also includes the final addition of a Marian antiphon that varied according to the liturgical calendar. In this case, the antiphon is Regina cœli. The disc concludes with a new procession, which took place at the end of the final canonical hour, providing a fitting conclusion to the preceding performances. This recording provides an insight into the rich ritual of the Corpus Christi festival, which featured plainchant, polyphony, minstrel music and organ music. It also rediscovers Joan Pau Pujol, a great composer who reveals himself to be exuberant and bombastic in his polyphonic pieces and measured and austere in his four-part music. The disc is part of the Poetic Music record collection of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC).
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Reviews
LAU007 | 5412690051579
January 2008
Digibox / 1 CD / 79:26
– Pujol, Música para el Corpus. Sonograma Magazine, Carme Miró, 29/01/2014
– Pujol: alabado por todos, conocido a fondo por nadie. Mundoclasico.com, Maruxa Baliñas, 08/05/2009
– Variado y exquisito. Scherzo Magazine, nº 239, p. 95, Juan García-Rico, marzo 2009 [PDF]
– Pujol, Música para el Corpus. Luister, nº 138, René de Cocq, enero-febrero 2009 [PDF]
– Pujol, Música para el Corpus. El Mundo. El Cultural, Rafael Banús, 04/09/2008 [PDF]
– Pujol, Música para el Corpus. Expresso (Portugal), Ana Rocha, 01/09/2008 [PDF]
– Pujol, Música para el Corpus. Audio Clásica, nº 138, p. 109, Germán Gan Quesada, octubre 2008 («Recomendado Audio Clásica») [PDF]
– Pujol, Música para el Corpus. CD Compact, Jesús Dini, octubre 2008 [PDF]
– Pujol, Música para el Corpus. AVUI. Cultura i Espectacles, 14/09/2008 [PDF]
– Pujol, Música para el Corpus. High fidelity, p. 91, septiembre 2008, [PDF]
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